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From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news
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Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 10:12 PM
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Subject: [ECOLOG-L] Ph.D. opportunities in plant ecophysiology and ecosystem
ecology at Florida International University for Fall 2010.

Ph.D. opportunities in plant ecophysiology and ecosystem ecology at  
Florida International University for Fall 2010.

Application deadline Feb 12, 2010.

We have space available in the plant ecophysiology and global change  
lab (http://www.fiu.edu/~oberbaue/) that currently has active  
projects in arctic tundra in Alaska, Everglades tree islands and  
marsh in South Florida, and tropical rainforest in Costa Rica.  Our  
work focuses on effects of climate change on trace gas fluxes,  
productivity and plant phenology, and how phenological shifts affect  
productivity.  In arctic Alaska we are relating robotic sensors  
system measurements to manual measurements of tundra phenology and  
growth in response to climate change and experimental warming.  We  
are also evaluating the importance of winter processes for annual  
carbon balance and growing season responses.  We are evaluating   
controls on rainforest ecosystem carbon and energy balance using eddy  
covariance, precision dendrometry, xylem sapflow measurements, and  
water addition experiments in conjunction with a new robotic sensor  
system at La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica.  We are  
determining the effects of water management on carbon balance in  
short- and long-hydroperiod Everglades marshes using eddy covariance  
and chamber level flux measurements.  In Everglades tree islands we  
are using xylem sapflow and dendrometry to evaluate seasonal and  
groundwater level effects on productivity and water use.

For additional information, contact Steve Oberbauer, Department of  
Biological Sciences, Florida International University, The Public  
University of Florida at Miami, FL 33199. email: [log in to unmask],  
ph: 305-348-2580.

For application information and forms see:
http://www.fiu.edu/%7Ebiology1/html/application.htm.
Funding is primarily in the form of teaching assistantships, and  
interested applicants should complete the T.A. form (http:// 
www.fiu.edu/%7Ebiology1/grad/taapp.htm). Highly competitive  
applicants may be selected for Presidential Fellowships.  Funding is  
available to support summer fieldwork.